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hvn_nbr_2

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9. It takes a court martial to get a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge.

Reply to SheltieLover (Original post)

Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:26 PM

Jan 2021

He probably got an undesirable or general discharge thru administrative procedures, conceivably an honorable but unlikely.

(My direct knowledge of this stuff is from processing such discharges in the army fifty years ago, so my knowledge may be out of date.)

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